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adamlett

Still no hash literal :-(

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There is a JEP for alleviating the problem.

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8048330

And that JEP basically already exists in Guava https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/ImmutableColl...

`ImmutableList.of("a", "b", "c")` is not as concise as e.g. Python, but it's not bad.

Once you statically import the method, it is even more concise.

Not really a place for it in a strongly typed language like Java :/ I could maybe see language support for creating Maps or something, but in Java you're supposed to create your own Objects and let the compiler check your code for errors.

I assume you meant statically typed, rather than strongly typed.

Swift has this: var airports: [String: String] = ["TYO": "Tokyo", "DUB": "Dublin"]

:D Thanks for the correction

I like the swift example... Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<>(){"TYO": "Tokyo", "DUB": "Dublin"};

A hash literal syntax in a strong, statically typed language works just fine; conceptually, they aren't much different in that regard than array literals, which Java already has.

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